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| | Hello All, I am in a bit of a computer crisis right now... I am quite knowledgeable when it comes to fixing computers however I am currently having a hard disk issue that I've never experienced before. I was reformatting my Uncle's Computer (XP Pro, P4, 2.4Ghz, 2.5Gb Ram, 80Gb … |
| | I recently built a computer. Here is the hardware I am using. CPU- Intel Core i5-660 Clarkdale 3.33GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core Desktop Processor Power Supply- Rosewill Xtreme Series RX750-D-B 750W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91 Hard Disk Drive- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 … |
| | I'm at my wit's end! Reset and restart but can't get past "SYstem BIOS Shadowed, Video BIOS shadowed." "ESC" does not redirect; "F2 - Set Up" stops there; and "F12 - LAN ..." stops there. Also, I hear a clicking noise under the keyboard. I've removed and replaced the battery> … |
| | A friend's computer. He downloaded a bunch of crap in an attempt at antivirus protection. Clicking on malware popups. He paid money to RegTool. Can someone please assist this aspiring PC/Security nerd in cleaning his dirty logs? :) It would be greatly appreciated. I am currently running Microsoft Malicious Software …  |
| | Ogt a 1tb western digital 1tb and tried to install ubuntu on it, but got an I/o error. It didnt tell me what i/o error but it would not install on the hard drive. I tried connectiing it to the Mybook case and it said the drive was locked. But … |
| | gateway laptop will not boot up in windows or the bios. the monitor is just black. i hear a fan on. gateway laptop model 450SX4. i tried changing the memory and reset the hard drive. |
| | Hi there, I've had 3 years of problem free use of my Dell Latitude 505 laptop. That is until the last few days when all hell has broken loose. The first in a catalogue of errors was a blue screen message saying "unmountable_boot_volume" together with instructions to start in windows … |
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| | Hey guys. I have an old HP desktop I recently began using again after having it dormant for a couple years or so. It's an HP Pavilion a530e running Windows XP, with an AMD Athlon video card, and it's hard for me to give more details than that unfortunately because …  |
| | How do I uninstall windows xp and install windows 98SE? I know,why would I want to do that? Well, its on an HP Pavilion Intel celeron 366MHZ 48mb sdram. I know,it can't be done. O yes it can, because I did it with some help from someone else. So now … |
| | Until a few days ago my 1TB Western Digital external harddrive was working perfectly. I tried opening J: and I hear this faint click in the background and Windows tells me it cannot access drive J: .After another try a pop-up message tells me my drive has experienced a CRC … |
| | My computer froze while adding an OSX.3 update and now when I start it up it doesn't complete its startup sequence. I hold down C key to force startup from the cd but it just keeps trying to start up from the main hard drive. Is there a key sequence … |
| | Hi guys, I just bought an Iomega 1TB external harddrive for my home laptop( I us eit as adesktop because of space). My friend who is computer savvy told me that I should have it on (ac power) all the time and it should be connected all the time. I … |
| | Compaq Presario 1255, successfully running Windows 2000, despite Compaq stated limitation of W95, W98, WMe. After Upgrading original 4.3gb hard drive to 10.6Gb cloned hard drive, Larger drive will not boot directly, but is accessible by first booting to floppy... Thanks for any suggestions to achieving bypass of the floppy? … |
| | Hi, I need to "force" a CD Drive to "read " an empty CD. e.g. make the laser move across the the disc's surface while it is spinning as if it was reading data. Usually when a blank CD is inserted the Drive starts reading but then stop right away …  |
| | i have a ergo laptop with a 40 gb fuji hard drive in it when i tern it on it asks for a hard drive password it is in a school one of the puiples has locked thhe hard drive is there anyway i can get on to the hard …  |
| | Hi All, I have a Hp pavillion 2500 laptop i just cleared the heat sink as it was shutting again and again bcs of heat but now after reassmebly it is not detecting my hard drive and this is a big problem i have gone to two technicians and they … |
| | Hello all, I have a problem with a laptop that I have not seen before. The original problem was the original heat sink assembly was not working so I ordered a new assembly straight from HP (It's an HP Pavilion dv9728ca running vista home premium). I installed it and the … |
| | I have several IDE and SATA hard drives that have Master Boot Records on them. I would like to remove the MBR. If I connect them up to a PC as a slave the CMOS does not know what to do. I get a blank screen and the computer goes … |
| | A friend of mine is having lock up problem, the PC always boots up but randomly locks up every couple of days, sometimes more. On two occasions, at least, the computer locked up while surfing the web, the monitor went black, and the PC started beeping until I turned it … |
| | Hi Guys, Help needed.. Friend of mine has a Compaq 6710b laptop that got infected with virus(es) and he turned the machine off. Now when we try boot it back up it gets to the windows blue screen (just before logon screen) and reboots itself... It will do this for … |
| | Hi, My name is Harriet and this is my 2nd post. Please let this serve as my introduction to you as I really don't know my way around this community. Before I used Windows Live OneCare (which was discontinued) I backed up to my external hard drive using Acronis. After … |
| | Recently I bought some computer parts Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 MotherBoard e-GeForce 7900 GS Graphic Cards (2) Anyway, the motherboard doesn't have a video output. So I connect my DVI cable into my monitor and I boot up the machine. The machine starts up and gives me 1 short beep. When I … |
| | Hi everyone, excuse me if I am posting in the wrong place but I am new to this.I have got hold of a Compaq p4 with no hard drive.I would like to use it with windows XP or a later o/s on it.I put a new hard drive in it … |
| | Hey guys, first post! I'm doing IT and tech support at an American study abroad program in Italy and have my first case of a fried computer, a Dell Vostro 220s with what I believe to be a fried graphics controller. The computer (to a certain extent) boots up and … |
| | Hi All, The other day i was quickly trying to retrieve some info off an old a hard drive in my computer, so being silly and lazy i unclipped the side and plugged it in and switched the computer back on. Now the probelm is i didn't secure it in … |
| | Hello, I think I have a search engine redirect virus; each time I am on Internet Explorer/Firefox (using Yahoo or Google search, it doesn't matter), I type in, for instance, "Berenstain Bears". I click on the link that I know is their official website, and I get redirected to bizrate, …  |
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| | Ok... so I am running a Hp Pavillion 512c. I plan to get better ram for it so I can run what I want/need. The thing of the matter is it is all hand me downs. I will be getting a 40G HD and a 60G, one is nearly full … |
| | Hi, I am working on a project, I need to control a CD Drive via the IDE/ATA Interface using a C/C++ program. My goal is to control the Speed of the Drive, and hopefully the radial position of the optical pickup head. I am still fairly new to this field, … |
| | I happened to find this way on google. And hope to share with you. Please reply me if you have any other ways. The software I'm using is called flv downloader. It is a freeware. Install and start the downloader. You needn't get the url when downloading the vid. Press … |
| | Since downloading Windows SP2 I decided to delete it to see if it would help and it didn't. I have also downloaded Norton Internet Security 2006 and it is still up and running. Before doing this I had quite alot of free space left on my hard drive, now I … |
| | Dear All, My computer system is very problmatic in many ways(5 year old)now iam planing to upgrade the system,as i am not required huge storage so won't change hard drive(80 gb)only processor, mother bord and ram, will anyone will suggest me is it possiable with same cabinet with existing hard … |
| | hi everyone , pls help me out , i have bought a new sata hard drive , WD 500gb . . Previosly i have 40gb on my computer . . . Now when i plug in the hard 500gb drive the cpu starts working , but shows a blank screen …  |
| | :sad: I have a Dell Computer - probably around 4 years old. A week ago, when I came home from work, their was a screen telling me I had an error and had to reboot. I thought it was no big deal - so I proceeded to reboot. When it … |
| | I have a new Dell Studio 15 laptop with Windows 7 Pro and a 500GB hard drive. I want create new partitions for storing my data. Currently, the size of the C: partition is 461,899 MB, of which 36,250 MB is used. That leaves 425,649 MB free. But when I … |
| | I got a laptop today, but it came with the hard drive partitioned in two. Is there a way to "de-partition" them without running Setup? I'm using Win XP Pro SP1, by the way. |
 | [ATTACH=right]14704[/ATTACH][B]Reviewer's View[/B] I'm the kind of person who has an almost religious fervour when it comes to keeping data backed up, perhaps unsurprisingly as I am an IT professional and my livelihood depends upon it. So when it came to the hands-on testing of System Mechanic 9.5 for this DaniWeb … |
| | I have a Sony ICD-R100PC recorder that I purchased in 1999. The recorder comes with a data cable (parallel port) and some software (Win95/98) that allows you to download the voice files (*.ics) from the recorder onto the computer. I can get the software to "work" under Windows ME. I … |
| | I am running XP and have formatted before with no problems. Yesterday I started to format and when it was at the point of installing windows, we heard a large crack of thunder and the power went out for a minute, which in turn shut my computer down. When I … |
| | Hi all... I have a build I did (TOTAL noob first timer), and am having all problems including multiple BSOD, internittant freezing, and screen flickering. I am sure that my problems with the build are related to settings rather than hardware issues, since I haven't any clue what settings/BIOS are … |
| | I've just bought a new game, Medieval II, and it requires 512 MB if RAM. My computer only has 256 MB. However, i've heard that you can make up that difference in using virtual memory instead. I found in my system setup how to increase how much virtual memory is … |
| | Moving on. Attempted system repair after getting the dreaded 'disk read error' on start-up. Chkdsk /r (NTFS) tells me I have one or more unrecoverable problems. Do I though? Have you any experience of this and can I still recover with the right programme? I can still enter setup screen …  |
 | Any help from fellow DaniWebers would be appreciated, I have a 3 yr old Compaq V2000 laptop. I recently installed a new hard drive on it and decided to install Vista Ultimate. I formatted the disk from within the Vista install. Worked fine for short time. Now the thing randomly … |
| | Hi, every one. I am Mandy from DeSol. I have HP/IBM server memoris and hard disk drives for sell. If anyone need them, you can contact with me (mwilliams@shopdesol.com) or view the website ([url]www.shopdesol.com[/url]), I can give you the best prices. |
| | Please advise if I am in wrong forum for this post. Re: Gateway NV52 laptop, AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2.1 G, 4 G ram This came with vista on it and a mail in for windows 7 update which I did get and installed. Worked great for 3 months then … |
| | Im Blue Shroom. I dont work with gadgets and motherboards as much as i would like to. I do DIY for a living and make sheepskin boots SNIP What makes me a geek? Well, i have only had a PC for 3 years and allready built 2 from scratch. OK …  |
| | Hi, A while ago i set my dad up with a new computer. the motherboard i chose was an Asus P5KPL SE. he has been using a Maxtor IDE HDD but now wants more storage space. i got him a sata drive and it is just not being recognised - … |
| | Hi, first let me stress - I have no real computer knowledge and most of the phrases etc mean nothing to me! I'm a stay at home mum and work from home making stationery etc and my husband bought me an external hard drive to back all my work up … |
| | Last year I swapped my motherboard and processor and all has been ok until today when I connected my Samsung Dv camera (model VP-D371W) up to the firewire port and it says it can't recognise it. I have been on the microsoft windows update site and downloaded any updates available … |
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